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Thursday, October 17, 2013

The Fiasco has ended! Or, has it?

Last night, just hours before our nation faced the possibility of being unable to pay its bills for the first time in modern history, the Senate voted 81 to 18 to reopen the federal government and raise the nation's borrowing limit. The House, of course, did as well, voting 285-144 to end the shutdown. Early this morning President Obama signed the legislation.

As anyone with any common sense had been predicting all along, the Republican extortionists would have to cave at some point. The votes to pass a clean continuing resolution to keep the government funded and end the shutdown were there. They had always been there, if only Boehner had allowed a vote.

Unfortunately, the biggest losers in this fiasco are not the extortionists. Although, all the latest polls indicate that the American people disapprove of the Republican/Tea Party by a 3-to-1 margin, the biggest losers by far are the American people. And damn, if we are not going to have to endure this all over again in three months.

Let us all hope that the American people will remember this debacle a year from now and vote the extortionist out.

2 comments:

Actually, I kinda hope they keep up the crazy. There are enough people in the south that are struggling and they are starting to realize they have drop it and stop voting against their own economic interests.

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The progress of social justice is slow and measured. Its growth depends on an increasing number of us becoming aware of the truth and consequences of our actions.

I believe that it is morally wrong to allow our wanton desires to interfere with the basic needs and interests of other sentient beings.

I believe the physical and psychological abuse – confinement, social deprivation, mutilation, genetic and reproductive manipulation, and profit exploitation – imposed by us on other animals is morally wrong.

I believe the suggestion that the exploitation of other sentient beings by humans can be achieved without cruelty, violence, or injustice is false and misleading.

As an advocate for all life, committed to compassion and justice, I refuse to take part in the exploitation of other sentient beings or to collaborate with those caught up in such injustice.

I pledge to do my best to live a life that conveys a clear, sincere and uncompromised message that is free of resentment, fear, exploitation, anger, cynicism, and manipulation.

Furthermore, I pledge to continue to support a broad range of nonviolent initiatives and programs that will hopefully one day eliminate the needless pain and suffering we inflict upon all the many wonderful creatures with whom we share this planet.